Ander



(No Model.)

A G. ALEXANDER.

VALVE.

No. 284.687. Patented Sept. 11, 1883.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER G. ALEXANDER, 013 DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO JOHN GILLIARD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

VALVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,587, dated September 11, 1883.

Application filed March 24, 1883: (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER G. ALEX- VANDER, of Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Valves, of which the following is a specification.

The drawing represents a vertical section, the tube D being shown in'elevation with two parts broken away.

My invention consists in a valve having a movable discharge-pipe, the inner end ofwhich controls the flow of water through the valve.

A represents the shell of a valve, similar to a common angle-valve, having thereon a screwthread, K, by which the valve can be coupled to a pipe.

B represents a nut, which screws into shell A at the point where the valve-stem of an ordinary valve passes through the shell.

0 represents a washer or disk of packing, the rim of which is pressed by nut B against a shoulder, L, on the inner end of the recess in shell A, into which nut B screws.

tight. Packing F is held in place by a hollow nut, E, through which tube D slides.

G represents a projecting ring fastened on tube D, and is for the purpose of taking the thrust of a spring, I, the other end of which bears against shoulder H in shell A when it is desired to make the valve self-closing.

To open the valve tube D is drawn out. To close the valve tube D is pushed in until its inner end seats against disk 0 and stops the flow of water through the valve.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a valve, the combination of the shell 

